Green dye-stuffs dyeing in reducing baths and their process of manufacture



Patented July 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS HAAS, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR T SOCIETE CHIMIQUE DE LA GRANDEPAROISSE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

GREEN DYE-STUFFS DYEING- IN REDUCING BATES AND THEIR PROCESS OF MANU-FACT'URE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS Haas, of 13 Rue des Saussaies, Paris, France,have invented Green Dye-Stuffs Dyeing in Reducing Baths and TheirProcesses of Manufacture, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention has for its object a process of manufacture of greendye-stuffs dyeing in reducing baths.

It is known to treat nitroaminophenol 1: 3 4 C H NO NH OH with alkalinepolysulphide, for obtaining black dye-stuffs which differ from eachother only by their more or less red, blue or green reflections.

The process forming the subject-matter is essentially characterized bythe fact that nitroaminophenol 1 4 is diazotised before being subjectedto the action of an alkaline polysulphide. By means of this process itis possible to obtain, not black dye-stuffs, but green dye-stuffs withblue reflections, of very fine shade.

By way of example the present process can 26 be carried out by thefollowing modus operandi:

The nitroaminophenol 1: 3 4 is diazoted and 1.5 kilos of the product isput in a wet state, in a melted mixture of 3 kgs. of

0 crystallized sulphide of sodium and of 1.5 kg. of sulphur, in smallquantities then, when the gaseous evolution is finished, the mixture isgradually heated up to about 200 C. When the evolution of hydrogenSerial No. 638,104.

sulphide has ceased the mass is dissolved in boiling Water to which isadded 1 to 2 kgs. of crystallized sulphide of sodium. The dyestull whichhas been formed can be precipitated by an acidor separated in any othermanner.

This dye-stuff has the property of dyeing vegetal fibre, in reducingbaths of sulphide or hydrosulphide of sodium, in bluish green shades.These shades resist washing and over-dyeing; they further heighten incolour upon chromium treatment or in a bath of perborate, by slightlyblueing.

The proportions above indicated are given by way of indication and canbe modified.

Claims:

1. A process for the manufacture of green dye-stuffs with bluereflections which consists, substantially, in diazotisingnitroaminophenol l 3 4, then in subjecting the product obtained to theaction of an alkaline polysulphide.

2. A process as claimed in claim 1, which consists in introducing thediazo of nitroaminophenol 1 3 at in polysulphide of sodium in fusion,then in raising the tem perature to about 200 C. until the evolution ofhydrogen sulphide has ceased.

The foregoing specification of my green dyestuffs dyeing in reducingbaths and their process of manufacture, signed by me this 27th day ofApril, 1923.

LOUIS HAAS.

